Missy Franklin: Size 13

Missy Franklin: Size 13

With four gold medals, one bronze, and two world records set at the London Olympics, 17-year-old Missy Franklin is America’s Great Wet Hope now that Michael Phelps has retired. But Franklin isn’t so sure. "I don't think his shoes will ever be filled," she said this week. "I think his footsteps are huge." And she should know. The 6'1" swimmer has size 13 feet, which her father calls her "built-in flippers." And as she told NBC’s Michelle Beadle, "I’m proud of my size 13 feet. They’re definitely hard to find shoes for, which isn’t the best, and I absolutely hate going shoe shopping—because everything is so cute, but nothing ever fits."

Elle Macpherson Size 12

Elle Macpherson Size 12

If Elle Macpherson is self-conscious about her reported size 12 feet, she didn’t show it when she hosted Saturday Night Live in 1996. During a sketch with Jim Breuer, the 6-foot-tall supermodel played an unappealing blind date who complains of "a corn or a blister or something" and shoves her bare foot in his face. "What, this here?" Breuer asks, trying to be a good sport with his beautiful companion. "No, that’s my wart." But he still has eyes of love. "You know what," he tells Macpherson, "you have really nice feet." She scowls and sniffs them. "Yeah, nice and smelly."